Summer Highlights 2009

Summertime in the City, Suburbs and Online!

Learn Inside and Outside the Classroom with

Special Summer Offerings.

Study...Socialize… Sightsee…

College of Arts and Sciences:

Featuring...

• BIOL 332 & ENVS 332 Ecology of the Tallgrass Prairie (Chicago)

Enjoy a one-week field experience exploring one of the most endangered ecosytems in North

America.

• CHEM 211 & CHEM 212 Organic Chemistry I & II (Schaumburg)

Complete one year of chemistry in a single summer.

• ENG 343/SPAN 360 U.S. Latino Writers (Chicago)

Study Latin American literature that emphasizes regional geography, culture, and politics. (Taught in English)

• JOUR 307 Documentary Storytelling (Chicago)

Study with Emmy award-winning writer, director and producer Judith McCray and learn research,

storytelling and technical production skills to produce a documentary video on a social justice issue.

A Year of Math in the Summer!

• MATH 099 Introductory Algebra (Chicago)
• MATH 100 Intermediate Algebra (Chicago and Schaumburg)
• MATH 121 College Algebra (Schaumburg and Chicago)
• MATH 122 Precalculus (Chicago)
• MATH 217 Introduction to Probability and Statistics (Online course)
• MATH 300 Linear Algebra (Chicago)

• MATH 350 Boolean Algebra & Switch Theory (Schaumburg)

Social Justice Summer Institute (Chicago)

• Combine theory and practice in this intensive two-week course exploring ideas about social

justice. Students will contextualize assigned readings, spend a day with each of three other

scholar-activists from across disciplines and complete three days of transformational learning at an

organization working in one of the focus areas. In addition, students will begin the course by

attending and participating in the Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA)

Conference. Through this unique learning experience, students will learn to develop their own

principles and practical approaches to social justice. (Course is cross-listed as ECON 380, POS

356, SOC 356 and SOCJ 380)

• ONLINE COURSES in Computer Science, Economics, English, Geographic Information Systems,

Liberal Studies, Math, Psychology and Sociology

For information about these and many more courses, call 1-877-APPLY RU or visit www.roosevelt.edu/schedule

College of Education:

For Those Who Want to Become Teachers
Enroll in Individual Courses That Will Prepare You For Future Teaching

One-week, intensive summer courses give you the opportunity to start on or enhance your teaching degree or certificate. These intensive, undergraduate and graduate courses in Chicago and Schaumburg include:

• EDUC 449 Teaching for Equity and Social Justice
• EDUC 3/411 Adolescent Development
• EDUC 3/413 Foundations of Middle School

• READ 434 Literature for Children and Adolescents

Longer session classes are also available, such as:
• EDUC 407 Human Development
• EDUC 470 Cross-Cultural Studies for Teaching Limited English Proficient Students
• EDUC 385/485 Technology in the Classroom

Start a Fast-Track Program in Reading that could lead to a State of Illinois reading specialist endorsement in as little as four semesters of study. By the end of Summer 2010, you can complete all coursework for your reading specialist certificate, and get started in your new career! Note: Schaumburg Campus Only.

For Those Who Are Already Teachers

If you have the summer off from teaching, expand and update your knowledge by taking a class in the subjects you teach, or branch out to learn other subjects. Plus, you can add to your teaching certificate with College of Education courses including:

• Middle School Endorsement—two, one-week intensive courses, offered in Chicago and Schaumburg
• English as Second Language (ESL) Endorsement/Approval—begin the six-course sequence with

two courses offered in Schaumburg
• Bilingual Endorsement/Approval—begin the six-course sequence with two courses offered in

Schaumburg
• Special Education Approval—a three-course sequence, offered in Chicago and Schaumburg
• TLED 440 Positive Discipline in the Classroom
• READ 434 Literature for Children and Adolescents

For those who want to Become School Administrators or School/Community Counselors

• ELOC 411 Diversity, Schools, and Community (online, leads to Type 75 certificate)
• CHS 401 Professional Orientation, Ethics, & Writing (in Chicago and Schaumburg)

For details on Education programs, see http://www.roosevelt.edu/education

RU Online

Take classes, earn a certificate, or work toward a degree online. Online classes are highly interactive, taught to groups of students during the regular semester term, and blend scheduled assignments, discussions and interactions with the flexibility of doing class work at convenient times within the class schedule.

Students can take classes, earn certificates, and work toward degrees in a variety of academic areas. Click RU Online to see summer subject area listings for available online courses or call 312-281-3139.

Hands Together, Heart to Art

The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University’s one-of-a-kind summer camp program, Hands Together, Heart to Art, marks its fifth year this summer. HTHTA is designed specifically for children ages 7-14 who have experienced the death of one or both parents. Through music, dance, theater and the opportunity to be with other children who have experienced a similar loss, HTHTA aids campers’ healing journeys. The HTHTA team includes experienced and exuberant teaching artists, licensed counselors and Auditorium staff members.

This year’s Roosevelt sessions are from July 6-17 and July 20-31. The program is also expanding this year to serve children in the Quad Cities area, running August 3-14 at the Western Illinois University Quad City Campus in Moline. If you know of a child in either location who could benefit from HTHTA, please call us at 312.922.2110 ext 353 or email education@auditoriumtheatre.org.
For more information or to see a video about camp, visit www.hthta.org